Oganisyan Yu.S. Corruption in post-Soviet Russia. Social and political origins. History and modernity, 2019, No. 2 (32), pp. 69-89.

Abstract

Considering various forms, directions and spheres of corruption, the author treats it as a fundamentally new, qualitatively different from the previously practiced bribery socio-political phenomenon, formed in the process of privatization and other transformations in post-Soviet Russia. The main components of this phenomenon are the power and business that began to divide. Since after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the state authorities have almost unlimited opportunities to intervene in the economy, to rely on its support for business was safer and more profitable than to increase their own competitiveness. Corruption feedback structures of government and business have been formed in the country at the Federal and regional levels. There was a symbiosis of the business community and dishonest officials, which created a criminal system in the distribution of state budget expenditures, where contractual schemes, bribes, kickbacks and other forms of embezzlement have become widespread. Corruption, without creating additional products, leads to the redistribution of national product, income and wealth in the interests of the groups included in this symbiosis. The article notes the inconsistency and weak effectiveness of state measures in the fight against corruption, which mainly explains its survivability.